Strike

We will campaign, strike and occupy to defeat the STPs. A movement is building - demonstrations are being planned all over the country to defend hospitals and departments that are under threat.

Local campaign groups are coming together, many under the 'Health Campaigns Together' umbrella. The next step is to coordinate these groups, and organise a nationwide action - massive local demonstrations, all on the same day.

We need the leaders of the other health unions, and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), to show the same support. A massive, TUC-organised demo and coordinated strikes by health workers could stop the Tories in their tracks.

If they try to close our hospitals, we won't just take it lying down. Health workers and campaigners can organise occupations to keep them open.

Nye Bevan, the architect of the NHS, famously said: "The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it." Well, we have the faith, we are fighting for it - and we can win!